On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 7:13 am, Ray Warren wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:46:38AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:45 pm, you wrote: > > > > did you see this one Anne , this list is a bit weird at the > > > > moment > > > > > > No, I didn't see it. Thanks for sending it on. I got LVG's > > > though. Before I saw this I had found an article on Gramofile > > > through google, so I've installed it. I'll also take a look at > > > LV's suggestions of audacity and rezound. > > > > > > But the first need is to actually get the sound in. What can I > > > use that will give me some feedback as to whether it is > > > actually hearing anything? It's too time-consuming to keep > > > attempting a recording when you don't know whether there's > > > anything there in the first place. > > > > You should have the output from vinyl player to go to line-in of > > your soundcard. In sound mixer(like Kmix) you should select > > line-in for recording purposes. If the speaker is connected to > > speaker/lineout port, then if you play the player, you should get > > sound from speaker when the OS is working. For this no sound > > s/w(playing or recording) need to run. If not then there is > > problem with /dec/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp > > -- > > L.V.Gandhi > > 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, > > Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, > > Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ > > If you try to go directly from a turntable to aux in on the sound > ,you will probably need to use a special preamp.The frequency > response recorded to vinyl is nonlinear to avoid overcuting the > ridges at lower frequencies.The output of most turntables is also > extremely low voltage for most aux level inputs.If the turntable is > connected to an amp or receiver,that should all be taken care of by > the phono input and you can use either aux out or record out to > connect to aux in on the sound card. > Ray Warren
Thanks, but I'm using the same physical connection setup that I used with Creative's windows software to record previously. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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